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Episode 7: How Monopoly Capitalism Challenges American Democracy
What happens when a handful of corporations hold the power to shape everything: what we buy, how we work, even how we connect with each other? In this episode, anti-monopoly expert Matt Stoller joins host Matt Levinger to break down how decades of consolidation have reshaped American life far beyond consumer prices. From defense and tech to baby formula and dating apps, Stoller exposes the hidden ways concentrated corporate power undermines competition, weakens communities, and erodes democratic self-government. But he also makes the case that the anti-monopoly tradition is one of America’s…
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